Course Presentation
The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge and skills able to endow them with a theoretical and professional know-how specialized in all of the issues and dynamics of Communication that - especially today - make it a strategically crucial ground for our economic, social and political life.
The solidity of the curriculum and its openly multidisciplinary profile (ranging from the sociology of cultural processes to linguistics, from philosophical knowledge to pedagogical training) aim to train experts in communication processes able to look beyond the most ephemeral fashions and to be ready for changes in market strategy. Also for this reason, the Degree Course is particularly attentive to the virtuous interweaving of educational communication and communication training. Thus, the skills to be acquired in the conception, design and implementation of models of integration between training knowledge and communication are considered essential tools for anyone who aspires to be professionally involved in the field of communication.
Through an appropriate interaction between the framework of the Disciplinary Courses and the Laboratories devoted to technological-multimedia research, the Degree Course seeks more specifically to enable students to acquire competences related to: knowledge of the broad spectrum of social theories of communication; mastery of texts and of technological-multimedia and linguistic-communicational grammars; knowledge of infrastructural and operational components of information and communication technologies; knowledge of methodologies suitable for the design and management of communication systems; conception, design, development and management of editorial projects and products with particular attention to the social dynamics of fruition; the design of studies and research activities on network architectures and their social, cultural and technological development; the design of educational paths, with particular attention to distance learning; the scientific planning of communication models useful for the realization of communicative prototypes at different levels and for different fields; the conception, design and management of educational processes, particularly within the field of communication.